European Missile Institute
European Missile Institute was the official name of a secret project signed in November 1957 by Italy , France and the Federal Republic of Germany for the development and production of atomic delivery systems and weapons . The treaty was secret because Germany had promised in the Paris Treaties in 1955 that it would not produce any nuclear weapons. According to the treaty, the weapons should therefore be developed on French soil.
The defense ministers Franz Josef Strauss , Jacques Chaban-Delmas and Paolo Emilio Taviani signed the corresponding arms agreement in Rome on April 8, 1958 . It was agreed to build an isotope separation plant in Pierrelatte (France). The French government under General Charles de Gaulle later withdrew from the agreement because France wanted to build nuclear weapons on its own.
Germany's efforts to own nuclear weapons were met in 1958 with the concept of nuclear participation .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jakob Kraft: German rearmament - When the atom bomb dreams burst. spiegel.de , August 5, 2011, accessed April 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Horst Möller : Franz Josef Strauss. Ruler and rebel . Piper , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05640-3 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Wolfgang Zank: Adenauer's grip on the atomic bomb , zeit.de , July 26, 1996, p. 5.